Norman Finkelstein shows us how to debate — not like Alex Jones, who played his part in acting like a crazy nut, instead of making gun-grabbers like Dershowitz appear as the dishonest phonies they are.

He was also wrong about the BP Gulf Oil disaster being a catastrophe of biblical proportions in claiming that there was a big fissure that could rupture, and he will prove to be wrong — along with all the other Doomsday preachers — about a catastrophe around the end of 2012, coinciding with the end of the Mayan calendar, in claiming that the U.S. dollar would be dead within two weeks after the Euro allegedly collapses by the end of this year.

In 1985 Madonna famously said, “we are living in a material world,” but in 2012, we are living in a video world.

You will notice that whenever you do a Google search for something that has prominent videos on the Web, Google will put several videos on its first page of hits, often near the top.

Given that most people don’t go past the first page of search results, this shows that a primary Search Engine Optimization strategy should be to provide links to videos, especially YouTube clips, with the relevant search tags.

One of the common tactics of those who don’t want to debate an issue on its merits is to shift the focus to the motives of the person discussing issues.

One of the common tactics of fans of alternative media personalities is to suggest that those who raise any issues about them — especially their words and actions — is to say the person raising those issues are jealous of that person’s success.

Lee Rogers of Oracle Broadcasting has been at the forefront of the alternative media in pointing out the tactics and fallacies engaged in by the many so-called alternative media fans who apply a double standard toward alternative media personalities they admire.

One reader to this site asked if I was jealous of Alex Jones’ success, simply for posting an article with a YouTube clip of Alex Jones’ own words in saying he didn’t want to promote mass hatred of Jews in response to a caller simply and calmly reading out a list of Jewish names, only to say on another show with absolute fury in his voice, the blanket statement that: “The Mexicans want to destroy America.”

By the logic of these critics, Alex Jones must be jealous of the success of Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others, because they have become more successful than him.

The real alternative media is waking up to these tactics, and to the actions and words of several prominent alternative media personalities being incongruent, like those of George Noory, who acts so affable and pretends to be a promoter of open discussion on many issues, yet is provably gatekeeping the HIV/AIDS scam.